"Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing."

-- W. S. Merwin

#Poetry Quotes #Ends Quotes #Lost Quotes

“When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.”
“Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.”
“The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.”

Source : Henry Grady Weaver (2016). “The Mainspring of Human Progress [Revised Edition]”, p.38, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away.”
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
“I'm scared of the interviews...I'm scared of having to get up onstage again. I'm scared of the critique. I'm scared right now of doing this again. But that's why I have to do it, I think.”
“You can't do anything about them...”
“As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.”

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